S6E7 Results: Report Card Of Delirium

So, I don't think this will come as much surprise... fairly firmly in last place, earning minus one point to the 2010s.

It is Blurred Lines by Robin Thicke featuring T.I. and Pharrell.

I will say, though, not outrageously in last place.

Actually, more people put Blurred Lines in the meh zone than they put it in last place.

And one outlier voter actually placed it second.

So let me reveal some of the comments then.

John says, So it resides in meh, which probably most accurately represents my opinion of the song, if you remove any consideration of the morals of the lyrics, if such a thing is possible.

Brian says, not remotely my thing, even if it wasn't problematic.

What rhymes with hug me? Fug me, perhaps.

But what was Marvin Gaye's estate thinking about messing about with this and giving it undeserved extra notoriety? Plenty of songs sound rather like plenty of disco tracks.

Being on Twitter has been an eye opener in terms of finding out how women think.

One of the first accounts I discovered was one called Everyday Sexism, where women shared, among other things, their experience of being grabbed against their consent in clubs.

This must have soundtracked many such occasions.

James, Centuries of Sound, put it second, but he says, Thank you for the discussion about this genuinely amazing bit of podcasting.

I started off agreeing 100% with Trev, but ended up taking a lot from Nick on board.

I will maintain that this is not in any way an outlier in terms of the misogyny of a lot of pop music around this time.

However, the fact that it was such a huge hit around the world does make the fact that it was singled out as a scapegoat make sense, and the backlash generated has done a lot to root out that misogyny.

Does it matter that the song was tainted forever? Not really.

It's hardly a sui generis piece of art, and we haven't really lost anything of the culture by consigning it to the bin.

However, I also don't feel this should really affect my score.

It's one of the better songs in a weak week, and I'm sure it will be getting a load of minus ones elsewhere, so go on.

Two points it is.

And I will add, a lot of the comments said very nice things about how the three of us handled that very, very tricky discussion about blurred lines, which I found gratifying.

It makes me feel it was all worthwhile.

There was a fantastic moment at the World Cup final yesterday when it cut to somebody in the crowd, and it was Pharrell, and the BBC commentator called him a.k.a. Rocky.